Keep Growing This Summer
Summertime is finally here, and this one feels different. After a year of uncertainty, I sense a growing light at the end of the tunnel. My hunch is we all have plans we’ve put off, vacations we’ve canceled, and family…
How did the Pandemic Change your Habits?
Just over a year ago the COVID19 pandemic dramatically altered many of our core habits. In the span of just a few days, we stopped eating in restaurants and started cooking at home. (After we washed the groceries, of course!) …
The Many Sides of Prayer
We’ve Only Just Begun If you haven’t heard yet, across all five campuses, we are on a formational journey toward deeper Christlike being and doing. One of our newest resources to help us learn from God’s word in God’s ways…
Can You Celebrate Easter Without Lent?
Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter, beginning with Ash Wednesday, culminating with our celebration of the Greatest Day, the day death died and hope triumphed, our Resurrection Sunday. I didn’t grow up in a tradition that thought…
Informed But Still Deformed
The Great Failure Some of the greatest failures in the church over the past few years have had less to do with what is professed in our words and more around what is performed in our lives. Nationally visible leaders…
Opening More than Open Here
From the beginning, Christ Community has sought to not only share information about Jesus but also be a catalyst in spiritual formation toward Christlikeness. Core to our DNA is the longing to multiply whole disciples, not just inform the masses. …
What Are You Reading?
Events of the last few months may have altered your habits and activities to allow for some extra reading time, or created the desire to dig more deeply into weighty subjects. Who better to suggest some good reads than our…
Cultivating a Life of Prayer
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” Martin Luther There is part of me that finds these words to be motivating and empowering. But there is also a part of me…
Better to Read the Bible Every Day than Every Year
Have you ever attempted to read the entire Bible in a year? There are lots of great plans out there that can help you do this. Two of my favorites are the Read Scripture plan from The Bible Project and…
A Day of Prayer and Fasting – Contending for Restoration
Introduction Imagine you’re gathered with friends—maybe your community group or Bible study group. You are talking about spiritual disciples—prayer, Bible study, generosity, stuff like that—and then someone says “But what about fasting? Is that something gospel Christians should do? Isn’t…